The Gay Bars of Tijuana Show the Cy's Evolvg LGBTQ Scene | PUNCH

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY
• “SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA
• LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO
• GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI
• MEXIN AMERIN FAY RTRANT — AND ONLY GAY BAR ON BEAN HILL — MAKG A COMEBACK
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY

The untamed nightlife of CDMX is legendary and extends (of urse) to the bt gay bars Mexi Cy. In this list of unmissable gay clubs, you'll fd everythg om the classic Tom’s Leather Bar – a darg and exhibnist optn sce the 1990s – and Zona Rosa’s preppy club, Kky, plete wh gogos and strippers to the classic La Purísima, named on multiple ocsns as one of the lol LGBTQ muny’s favoure hangouts and even a uple spots where straight folks are wele too.

Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016. Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street. The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week.

“SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA

But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology. The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny.

Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach.

One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows. Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA.

LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO

It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi.

Sodome is Mexi Cy's posht gay sna wh a bar, sna, steam room, maze, dark room, foam room, dance floor and weekly events.

GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI

gaypl has been to and reviewed Sodome Bath Hoe. Woven to gay Tijuana, on the razor’s edge of the red-light district to the north, is a wars of that threat and others, and an entrenched sire to fet them.

As the rabowre would suggt, there are plenty of gay bars Tijuana. The cy do, however, have a rich history of gay male mobilizatn, chronicled a 2019 dissertatn by social scientist Jse Anguiano of Wtern Michigan Universy.

The movement began the 1970s; Plaza Santa Cecilia, today a vibrant gay statn, served as one of the earlit meetg s for the cy’s gay male liberatn groups. Anguiano wr about Tijuana’s first official Pri march 1995, after a hateful rponse to an unofficial march over a earlier: In 1983, spectators hurled eggs and sults om the siwalks at a group of 30 gay men marchg for their rights.

MEXIN AMERIN FAY RTRANT — AND ONLY GAY BAR ON BEAN HILL — MAKG A COMEBACK

But wh metro San Diego and s flourishg queer life ls than a half-hour to the north—the Hillcrt neighborhood, which is the cy's thrivg gay district, is home to two lbian bars—Tijuana n still feel like ’s laggg behd.

The scene today reflects gay Tijuana’s male-centric history. On the other si of the plaza, Avenida Revolución, the gay artery of downtown, puls to life wh electro beats om the dance floors of Premier Men’s Club and Rubiks. Any gay bars that they might vis were centered around cis men.

” In the years sce, she’s noticed margal progrs, as the neighborhood embrac new spac that are “more iendly for trans, gay, lbian and queer people. D’s Cocktail Lounge, a most bar largely off the gay-dar, loted a Montebello mi-mall. The bar drew a lol Mexin-Amerin clientele, a smatterg of self-intifyg gay men and women, trans women and drag queens, and heterosexuals havg a flg wh someone not their signifint other.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

Sokol, a TV producer, was enmhed the gay/art/mp/rock band scene of Echo Park and Silver Lake, as was I. Owned by the proprietor of the gay vaquero dance club, Tempo, the Sre had a long, queer past.

It was once a gay bar lled The Keyhole, the ont door surround by a large, woon keyhole shape (that remaed when was the Sre and beyond) day, Sokol lled and told me that he and Licón had bought the bar but didn’t know what to ll .

I thought about Montebello, about queerns and reprentatn, and how sire uld be ptured while avoidg the clichés of so much homoerotic imagery. I wanted imag for Chi that were aimed at a predomantly gay Lato male dience, athetilly rmed by neighborhoods like Montebello, largely workg and middle class. In the neighborhoods, mascule male erotic sire (both homo and heterosexual) is generally embodied wh an array of archetyp, cludg the homeboy/gangster, the jock and the chal, a term mon Mexi for a mascule young man who might have sex wh other men, but who don’t bear mon queer tras or terts.

Historilly (and still), male homosocial sexual enunters vertly take place the recs of public parks, like Whtier Narrows and Elysian Park.

I suted and found men workg fast food rtrants and to body shops, gay and straight bars, cisg parks and on the street. In France, a Paris rint, an olr gay man origally om East Los Angel, me to the openg.

Granted, Chi is a mostly sized space, but a loyal clientele tablished quickly, one that was predomantly Lato, gay and male. It soon beme a gay, brown “Cheers”-type bar, wh a workg class and distctly homie athetic. Licón had already worked gay bars for years, and he unrstood well the realy of havg a bar a rintial neighborhood.